Readers, before we get into the meat of the subject
matter of the title of this article, I want to say directly that this article
will be drawn from Media sources from around the country, with my search specifically
focused on race related headlines or in print opinions, those references as
always will be available in link form at the bottom of the article. I am in no way going to say that this will
not contain strong opinions, direct references and that it will contain subject
matter that may make some feel uneasy.
As with all my articles, I welcome feedback of all sorts, but will not
tolerate slander, rude or offensive comments, personal attacks or anything in
those genres of responses and I am a citizen who does not see color of skin or
race as a barrier to being respectful toward my fellow citizen, I am a United
States Citizen. What I do have a problem
with is the bias and bull crap that is being propagated to the very citizen
base that has a history of proving that the subject of color has a profound
effect; it ends up costing many lives, causing similar rhetoric historically, in
protest of the things going on around them, this in reference to our “civil war”
and “civil rights movements”. I also am
disgusted with the outrageous display of rioting, looting, arson committing and
felonious actions of our citizens upon persons who have nothing to do with the
circumstances facing the victims and have forgotten that changing things will
not work with this type of violence, my heart and thoughts and prayers are with
those who have lost much to the masses who obviously have no respect and jump
at the chance to commit crimes on Television that the public excuses for the
most part. Now, on with our article, sit
a moment and read and feel free to start healthy debate so we as a nation can
work together without violence toward doing what we do best, help our fellow
citizen.

Our first entry about the racism issue, comes from ABC
news at their online website, abcnews.com, Wednesday November 26,2014, the
article (Attorney’s Seek to Clear former Crow Tribe Chairman) has this as it’s
opening few words:

“Civil rights
attorneys have moved to exonerate a former chairman of the Crow Indian Tribe of
a bribery conviction by obtaining unreleased emails from a federal judge who
has been reprimanded for sending racist correspondence.

Former Montana
U.S. District JudgeRichard Cebull sentenced Clifford Birdinground
("bird-in-ground") to three years in prison in 2003. The 79-year-old
Crow leader had pleaded guilty to taking $2,700 in kickbacks after being
accused of referring tribal business to a car dealership.

When
Birdinground sought to retract his plea and go to trial, Cebull rejected the
request, a decision upheld on appeal.

Cebull resigned
last year after an investigation into a racist email he sent involving President
Barack Obama.

A judicial
committee determined Cebull sent hundreds more inappropriate emails from his
federal account that showed disdain for blacks, American Indians, Hispanics,
women, certain religions and others. The messages have not been released.

Birdinground
recently joined a pending legal petition in California to preserve Cebull's
emails as potential evidence in future lawsuits. Birdinground is represented by
attorneys from the California Civil Rights Law Group.

"It's our
view that when Judge Cebull refused to accept (Birdinground's) motion to have
his plea withdrawn, that the judge did so based on potential bias against
Native Americans," attorney Lawrence Organ said.

Organ said he
wants to know if Cebull's emails contain direct references to Birdinground's
case or have revelations of bias. He added that the emails could raise other
issues if Cebull was communicating with others in a position of power.

Cebull could not
be reached for comment. The committee that investigated his emails found no
evidence of any bias when it analyzed his cases…”

As
we can see, the article states clearly there was something that correspondence
will reveal about sensitive comments of race and other parameters going on with
a Judge. Never mind details surrounding
the case where an illegal action took place, the focus is on why the appeal, a
valid reason for appeal as justice is “blind” and treats all with the same
reverence, including the appeals court that upheld the decision, is this an
injustice worth rioting over, NO as it did not spark any to the magnitude in
New York and Missouri, there was no death involved, still from the looks and
smell of the article, seems to provoke racial thought rather than logical
deduction of the crime committed, certainly personal views will and have
interfered, but legally, a total other set of items. Now, does that sound like an unbiased report
or is it slanted a bit, you decide. Next
we will look at another headline, a bit more current from that same news
outlet, November 27, 2014 entitled, “Ferguson Grand Jury Papers Full of
Inconsistencies” and is as follows:

“Some witnesses
said Michael Brown had been shot in the back. Another said he was face-down on
the ground when Officer Darren Wilson "finished him off." Still
others acknowledged changing their stories to fit published details about the
autopsy or admitted that they did not see the shooting at all.

An Associated
Press review of thousands of pages of grand jury documents reveals numerous
examples of statements made during the shooting investigation that were
inconsistent, fabricated or provably wrong. For one, the autopsies ultimately
showed Brown was not struck by any bullets in his back.

Prosecutors
exposed these inconsistencies before the jurors, which likely influenced their
decision not to indict Wilson in Brown's death.

Bob McCulloch,
the St. Louis County prosecutor, said the grand jury had to weigh testimony
that conflicted with physical evidence and conflicting statements by witnesses
as it decided whether Wilson should face charges.

"Many
witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown made statements inconsistent with
other statements they made and also conflicting with the physical evidence.
Some were completely refuted by the physical evidence," McCulloch said.

The decision
Monday not to charge Wilson with any crime set off more violent protests in the
St. Louis suburb of Ferguson and around the country, fueled by claims that the
unarmed black 18-year-old was shot while surrendering to the white officer in
the mostly African-American city.”

The article flows well and has many
facts in its mix, until the last paragraph featured, it went from fact filled
to color based where this tragedy that has seen many protests and looting,
arson, violence and the like, clearly, we get to see a young “black” man be
shot by a “white” cop, let’s just disregard the information where the
inconsistencies of views and evidence that did not match up with statements and
no proof had nothing to do with any of the decision, it was color that dictates
the article’s tone as well as the basis for reaction. For a third example from ABC news where
racism and color are featured, Let us look to this headline from November 29,
2014, entitled, “Parents of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin in Florida.’ As follows:

“The father of a
black Missouri teen killed by a white policeman has gotten words of comfort
from a Florida couple whose unarmed son was also shot to death.

Tracy Martin
told Miami television station WFOR he offered Michael Brown Sr. encouragement
and told him "God has his hands on the situation, and he's gonna be
OK."

The vigil was
part of the annual Gospel Explosion Concert hosted by rapperFlo Rida.”

I don’t have
to rewrite a single word nor do I have to critically think when it comes to the
instant tone of this article’s contents from ABC, though the article is an
Associated Press influence, we see an silent upholding of rhetoric that I am
convinced many readers are tired of hearing and ready for real changes to a
justice system and media system that is strained and ready for overhaul and
again, all these snippets are available to look at from their original links at
the bottom of this article, I am disgusted with our world’s news being
influenced with items such as these, including enough of an outcry that the
President even held a news conference, which echoed the same items many
citizens cried out, “stop the violence and act like US citizens”, meaning, the
innocent store owners and property owners did not deserve the reaction the
populous there demonstrated, facts are facts and one man’s tragic death does
not equal vengeance upon the citizens who had nothing to do with those items,
shame on you all who participated in its uprising and carrying out.

This begs the question, is it just
one news outlet or are we being saturated with this type of rhetoric. What follows will open your eyes the very
same as it did my own. In our political
world, from US News and World Report, August 5, 2014, the title, “Views you can
use: A war on ‘Whites’”:

“Republican Rep.
Mo Brooks of Alabama told conservative radio hostLaura Ingrahamon Monday that the Democratic Party is
waging a “war on whites.” Brooks added, “the way in which they’re launching
this war is by claiming that whites hate everybody else." His
comments were made in response to National Journal reporter Ron Fournier
telling conservative activist Michael Needham during a conversation about
immigration on Fox News Sunday that "[t]he fastest growing bloc in this
country thinks the Republican Party hates them. This party, your party, cannot
be the party of the future beyond November, if you're seen as the party of white
people."

Brooks reiterated his comments in an interview with AL.com following his appearance on
Ingraham’s show, saying, "They're attacking, by the Democrats' openly
soliciting votes of people based on skin color, they in turn are attacking
whites based on skin color and that's wrong. Nobody should be attacked based on
skin color."

Steve Benen of the Maddow Blog noted
that Ingraham even gave Brooks "a chance to walk it back, explaining
to Brooks that characterizing Democrats as having launched a ‘war on whites’
seemed ‘a little out there.'" But, Benen added, "The GOP
lawmaker didn’t care, responding, 'That’s what they are doing though. … They’re
playing the race card.’”

Readers, I have faith in your own ability to
know tones and I ask you, are we being baited or lead to think and feel and then
react a certain way, read on and you decide.
Up next, Huffington Post, December 1, 2014, entitled, “People thought
this Black Woman was a Prostitute because she is married to a White Man.” I
almost vomited from the headline alone, the opening part of the article (which
contains a video on the page header):

“Four years ago, Maureen Evans Arthurs had her first
experience of being mistaken for a prostitute as a result of being married to a
white man.

"The first time I was mistaken for a sex worker I
was on my husband’s arm at an event in California four years ago. A man
approached me, asking if he could buy me a drink. I declined, and he proceeded
to whisper to me, 'How Much?'"

Arthurs recounted this experience toHuffPost
Live's Marc Lamont Hillon
Monday and shared that this belief is not uncommon among black women in
interracial relationships.

"It's going to continue to keep happening, and I
think there should be a lot of emphasis on why it continues to happen, and we
have to have that conversation about how we treat women in public spaces,"
Arthurs said.”

I
ask you readers, has the citizen of the United States forgotten the struggles
during Martin Luther King’s time and what it means to respect each other or is
it that those who fight against this, suffer the ultimate price, death or the
threat of death in the name of ending this divide that is complete with labels.
CNN is not immune to publishing articles about racism, to quote an article from
them, November 27, 2014, entitled “The new threat: Racism without Racists”:

“.. One studyconducted
by a Brigham Young University economics professor showed that white NBA
referees call more fouls on black players, and black referees call more fouls
on white players.Another
study that was published in the American Journal of Sociologyshowed
that newly released white felons experience better job hunting success than
young black men with no criminal record, Ross says.”

This news agency
referenced a psychological study that included pictures of a knife fight with
two whites, and a white on black in the same pose as a test and even mentions
that a stat in the NBA includes white referee’s call more fouls on blacks than
whites and that black referee’s call more fouls on whites than blacks,
absolutely dismaying as to why we allow ourselves to focus on these types of
statistics when no one is truly immune to having to make decisions and look,
think or feel a certain way, why not, the society we are living in has by
example, given multiple examples that show up in all sorts of media formats,
even our own in this article, simply because I am disgusted and disappointed by
several of my fellow citizens actions that include this bias and enforce as
well as influence our known world and more than disappointed at the “free press”
for not being more focused on facts and less on key words such as “Black,
White, Racism and Divides”. When I
started my search with “racism in the news” the return netted Seven million
hits as results, seven million uses of the words racism and news, George
Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown filled the first few pages of results,
including the aftermath of each decision and almost none with references to the
facts of the case, rather most filled with words such as “Black” or “White”,
side thought, we call “Blacks” African Americans, we call whites, “Caucasian” shouldn’t
we be called US citizens or neighbor, the labels are overwhelming.

I will wrap up this
overwhelming show of evidence of bias in the news and racism in the media with
a few words. The definition of Racism
(noun, Merriam Webster online Dictionary) is the poor treatment of or violence
against people because of their race or the belief that some races of people
are better than others and when it comes to this subject, maybe we are all a
bit “racist” in that I have heard many of my own friends say, “Damn I’m good”
but then again, I’ve never looked at those statements as a basis for skin color
or background, but rather one of skill or accomplishment and I most certainly
have not seen a single riot when most persons get taken down in a sting
operation that busts the neighborhood drug dealer, not one outcry of foul when
insider trading takes place on wall street near the level of what happened
across this nation from Mr. Martin or Mr. Brown’s circumstance came to light
and never mind the crime committed against my own family with bullies who
threatened to “beat them up while videotaping it so it could be posted to You
Tube”, not one fist was thrown, not one group of persons raging against the
community. The problem lies within the
realms of popular belief, influenced by a liberal and conservative media that
has blanketed our nation and poisoned our minds. All of these examples, show the injustice of
society, the laws that are argued over and subsequently decided upon and the
reactions of a nation that calls itself civilized when by example, nothing is
further from the truth so long as we allow this type of thinking, this style of
reaction and the power struggle to continue between race, we didn’t build this
nation on one stand alone ideal, we built it upon many immigrants from many
backgrounds coming together, in order to form a more perfect union and we built
it with many hands of color, many lives and many sacrifices by thousands of
historic and unknown figures, what we need is to stop labeling one another,
start working together using our vast knowledge and building a better United
States of America and a Global Community that regains its respect of our
nation, because we shine as a light in a very dark world. In part II, we will
look at the justice system, the grand jury and their important roles. Good day readers, God bless us one and all,
keep the peace.

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